Nature Writings
- ISBN-10
- 1883011248
- ISBN-13
- 9781883011246
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 888
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Library of America
- Author
- John Muir
Description
A collection of Muir's definitive writings is brought together in a volume that includes The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, and various other essays on his attempts to preserve the wilderness.
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